Hi all;
Joerge Schiling is claiming that his star-1.31 is about 2x faster than
tar for the same job. My only speed test was the estimate test, which
ran in about 2/3rds the time the tar version took, but also followed
some mountpoints and found about 6 gigs more than tar did to backup
I've about got amanda working with a Compaq/Seagate 4586 now, but one
thing I need to clarify.
When I issue as user amanda, amverify config 2 it should proceed to
do a verify run on slot 2's contents, or at least thats how I
understand it.
What it does, even if slot 2 is loaded with the
Does anyone know of a decent compiler for windows thats not a bank
breaker? I'd like to see if its buildable for the general run of W95
and W98 machines.
And has anyone made amanda work as client on a windows box other than
via samba? In other words, am I just spinning my wheels to even
Hi all;
I've been in the configuration phase, doing test backups
for about a week now, both at home on a changer and here at the office
on a T4000s.
Unforch, I think on my office machine, I've been bit by a bad tar,
1.13.17 to be exact. So I got 1.13.19 from rawhide just now, along
with the
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Joshua Baker-LePain;
JB On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 at 3:51pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote
JB Yeah, I did write that on Aug 15. And I *didn't* send it out
JB again...
Yeah, I have a regular rash of old messages this morning. ???
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 03:51 pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 at 1:37pm, David Carter wrote
^
Does anyone know whats going on here? I've about 110 of these old
messages apparently resent over the weekend.
[...]
Cheers,
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 03:02 pm, Dan Debertin wrote:
John R. Jackson writes:
What compiler (and version) are you using? I know gcc 3 is broken,
for instance.
egcs-1.1.2. It strikes me that that's rather old ... I'll start a
gcc-2.95.3 build right now and report back.
John; I've been
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to ajit k;
akj Hi,
akj I posted this message sometime back but not sure if it really
akj went thru. So, I will repost.
akj I plan to use amanda as my backup system on the above hardware
akj and OS combination. I am hoping to benefit from the amanda users
akj
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Thomas Hepper;
TH Hi,
TH On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:51:10AM +1000, Chris Anderson wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm getting a seg fault from the chg-scsi program when I try to do
'amcheck' and it's driving me somewhat crazy. (Apologies in advance
for the length
On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:12 am, Rebecca Pakish wrote:
We might want to think about doing this during off-hours as well.
Ahm, should we take a survey to figure out which timezone most users
are in first?
Oh, we have a recent backup of the internet in case the reboot fail,
right?
Is it
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Glen Eustace;
GE I posted this at the time this list appeared broken and hence
GE wonder whether anyone actually received it.
GE I am relatively new to Amanda, though I have has it running quite
GE satisfactorilly with a single DAT drive backing up 4 servers
I've got 2 of the above 4 tape library machines, one here that
works great, and one at work thats killing me.
I can take the exact same chg-scsi.conf and amanda.conf files to
work, modifying only the sg# numbers in them because the work
machine doesn't have a cd writer, so the changer then
On Friday 28 December 2001 11:41 pm, Amanda Listee wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install the tapeless amanda-242-tapeio
sourceforge version on a FreeBSD-4.4 white box:
I ran autogen twice, getting which I assume is a harmless error:
configure.in:1617: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without
Hi folks, got one here at home.
I added a second machne to the home network, and added some
iptable NAT/MASQUERADE rules, and now amcheck is returning this
error:
WARNING: gene.coyote.den: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Here is the /home/amanda/.amandahosts file:
gene.coyote.den
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:51 am, Joseph Myers wrote:
I have AMANDA working on the server just fine. It is capable of
backing up two computers already. Now I have to work on the other 4.
The problem is the first 2 are running RedHat 7.1 and are thus using
xinetd while the next 4 are
Hi folks.
I just got through a day and a half of trying to find out why I
couldn't do a backup, this after installing 2.4.3b2 over my
2.4.2p2 install about the 3rd of Jan 2002.
amcheck and df both kept saying my 40g drive was full, when the
last time I checked it a week or so back it
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote:
Hi folks.
I just got through a day and a half of trying to find out why I
couldn't do a backup, this after installing 2.4.3b2 over my
2.4.2p2 install about the 3rd of Jan 2002.
amcheck and df both kept saying my 40g drive was full, when the
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:02 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote:
Hi folks.
I just got through a day and a half of trying to find out why I
couldn't do a backup, this after installing 2.4.3b2 over my
2.4.2p2 install about the 3rd of Jan 2002.
amcheck
On Sunday 13 January 2002 01:16 am, W. D. wrote:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have this configuration? If so, can you give me
some simple and straightforward instructions on how to get
this working?
One scenario:
Backup of ALL files ON DEMAND.
Second Scenario:
Backup of ALL files Sunday night,
On Thursday 10 January 2002 02:31 pm, Thomas Hepper wrote:
To change this will take some time, i think you will hear from
me tomorow,
I hadn't heard, my cold isn't any better and the backup schedule
restarts tonight for the week. Here is what I've done, and which
*appears* to have fixed
On Sunday 13 January 2002 01:54 pm, Thomas Hepper wrote:
Hi Gene
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:17:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 10 January 2002 02:31 pm, Thomas Hepper wrote:
To change this will take some time, i think you will hear
from me tomorow,
I hadn't heard, my cold
On Sunday 13 January 2002 03:40 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:17 pm, you wrote:
On Thursday 10 January 2002 02:31 pm, Thomas Hepper wrote:
To change this will take some time, i think you will hear from
me tomorow,
I hadn't heard, my cold isn't any better and the backup
schedule
On Sunday 13 January 2002 05:28 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
Yeah, he wrote all that, sorta like I can't believe I ate the
whole thing!
So lemme snip hugely:
The odd thing, and maybe I'm getting macular degeneration or
something, but I cannot find anyplace in the tapeio.c file where
it actually
On Monday 14 January 2002 03:14 am, W. D. wrote:
At 08:41 1/13/2002, Gene Heskett, wrote:
Amanda, left to its own devices, does its own scheduleing as it
attempts to make the most efficient useage of the available
tape. You can force a full if you'd like, and that could be
put into the crontab
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:30 am, Moritz Both wrote:
I have got an email from OnStream support today. They say that
they are *not* planning to release a new firmware for the ADR50
or the ADR30 at the moment. Thus, no support for amanda.
They claim that their new generation drives, the ADR2
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 09:56 am, Rivera, Edwin wrote:
is there a way, in the amanda.conf file, to specify *NOT* to use
the holding-disk for a particular filesystem?
for example, if i use amanda to backup 8 filesystems on one box
and i want 7 to use the holding-disk, but one not to.. is
On Thursday 17 January 2002 09:10 am, Don Potter wrote:
I ran the tapetype test to our tapedrive (ADIC DS9400D) using
DLTTAPE IV. I frontpaneled the compression so I expected at
least 40 GB when the tapetype was completed. But I only got
about 17GB:
Command: tapetype -d /dev/rmt/0n
define
Greets everybody;
One item of utility software we need for amanda is one that can
change the status of the drives hw compression. As it sits now,
a tape that has once been written with the HW compression turned
on cannot ever have it turned back off. This may not be true of
all drives, but
On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:59 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greets everybody;
One item of utility software we need for amanda is one that can
change the status of the drives hw compression. As it sits now,
a tape that has once been written with the HW compression turned
on cannot ever have
On Friday 25 January 2002 08:16 am, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
hi
so I found out DUMP is only for ext2. great. So I'm going to
use tar instead since amanda doesn't really support reiserfs...
how do I specify the use of the tar program? (in other words
how do I shut up amcheck to search for
On Monday 21 January 2002 11:53 am, Thomas Hepper wrote:
[...]
I'm not such a big expert in this area. I like only the white
ones. If i try the red ones the next day i have an big
headache.
It seems to be that way with me too, even if all the pundits keep
trying to tell us the red ones are
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 01:27 pm, John R. Jackson wrote:
I wonder how hard it would be to train amanda to rotate holding
areas (partitions) on a raid instead of tapes? ...
That's already part of 2.4.3 (or the amanda-242-tapeio CVS branch).
Humm, might be a good thing to know. How-to Docs
On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:40 am, Manuel Monteiro wrote:
Hi,
I'm testing Amanda (version 2.4.3b2) in a linux box (Mandrake
8.0 - kernal 2.4.3-20mdk) with an external SCSI HP Surestore
DAT24x6 (detected as C1557A).
I operate tapes with mtx without problems (version 1.0 -
versions 1.2.1x
On Thursday 31 January 2002 07:08 pm, Matthew Hall wrote:
Why is this going and deleting all my old index files? Is
there a way to change this behaviour? Some of us do take
tapes out of the changer for offsite storage - now it's
more 'difficult'[1] to restore since amtrmidx decided I
didn't
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 09:07 am, Manuel Monteiro wrote:
Thanks,
I've changed the tape scsi id to 4 (the only thing i've done
from your suggestions - the permissions are right, bin belongs
to the need groups and the devices are group rwx ) and noted
some improvements. Now the command
On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:23 am, John R. Jackson wrote:
has anyone been able to make arkc recognise tape names with
spaces?
U, what does arkc (whatever that is) have to do with the
Amanda backup package (www.amanda.org)?
arkc is part of arkeia, John. Thats the high-priced spread.
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:49 am, chandrasekar wrote:
Hi everyone
This might be a simple question. I just wanted to know if we
can use DDS cleaning tape in a DDS-3 tape drive.
Thanks in advance
regards
chandrasekar
I've read someplace that the formulations have changed enough
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 06:46 am, Juanjo wrote:
My changer script cannot find -clean -access -status and -barcodes
files, how are those generated first time? Manually?
You'll need to 'touch' them the first time, and I believe the barcodes
thing is still an outstanding bug. Thomas Hepper
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 12:21 pm, chandrasekar wrote:
Hi everyone
I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my amanda Back-up
server. I have few questions.
i) I had earlier labelled all the six tapes. Then I replaced one of
the tapes(slot 6) with the cleaning tape. I tried labelling
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:16 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 12:21 pm, chandrasekar wrote:
Hi everyone
I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my amanda
Back-up server. I have few questions.
i) I had earlier labelled all the six tapes. Then I replaced
one
On Friday 15 February 2002 01:37 am, Hikawa wrote:
Hi,
I installed amanda into TuroboLinux6.5 server.
exclude.gtar file is not included in the server.
Where can I get exclude.gtar file ?
Regards,
Masafumi Hikawa
You build it. Its a list of stuff that amanda is NOT supposed to
backup.
Hi folks, got one here at home.
I added a second machne to the home network, and added some
iptable NAT/MASQUERADE rules, and now amcheck is returning this
error:
WARNING: gene.coyote.den: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Here is the /home/amanda/.amandahosts file:
gene.coyote.den
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:56 am, Jeffrey S. Mulliken wrote:
Gene,
Don't know if this is your first networked machine, but in
case your just getting started with xinetd, bear in mind that
by default, the old inetd configuration used to have all
services enabled. Xinetd, on the other
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 08:47 am, Gene Matthews wrote:
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 09:01, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Well, here's what I do to exclude the recycyle bin:
define dumptype comp-high-smb {
global
comment important partitions via tar (e.g. for samba)
compress client
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 04:05 am, Masafumi Hikawa wrote:
Hi,
I tried to do backup of amanda client host.
My Amanda Tape Server is TurboLinux Sever6.5.
My Amanda client host is Solaris7, so its name is aspone.
When I executed su amanda -c amcheck aspone,
I am getting a error.
A error is
On Thursday 21 February 2002 08:40 am, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
hello
I have a tape for each working day, monday is daily-000, tuesday
daily-001, and so on and so on.
I forgot to put in a new tape, so it didn't overwrite the tape.
I put in the right tape (skipping a day) but amanda tells me
On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:17 am, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
I did a amflush and it was done in a couple of secs... it was
not complete...
Then its appears there may be yet another problem unless it can
identify that its not the tape it expected in that short a time.
Tape being a bit
On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:44 pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote:
Hi! I've got a DDS3 drive, and I need to buy tapes for it. I'm
comparing different brands, and frankly, I don't know enough to
make a good decision. I've narrowed it down to Sony, Maxell,
HP, and Verbatim (the Fuji cassettes are
On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:02 pm, Alan Clegg wrote:
On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:17 am, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
I did a amflush and it was done in a couple of secs... it was
not complete...
Don't forget that amflush runs in the background, it may not
have really 'finished' when you
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 07:27 pm, Josh wrote:
Anyone know what this error means:
backup# /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi -info
Please specify a number as tape_device [0-9]
here's my changer.conf:
number_configs 1
eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject command
sleep 30
On Saturday 02 March 2002 02:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the same problem when I upgraded from amanda 2.4.1p1 to
2.4.2p2. In both versions the user was bin, but when I tried to
retrieve data with the new version I found the directory
structure but no files. I discovered amanda was just
On Monday 04 March 2002 09:35 am, Brad Tilley wrote:
Hello,
What is the correct procedure for removing a Windows based PC
from the Amanda backup?
Thank you,
Remove it from the disklist.
--
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M
98.6+% setiathome rank, not too shabby
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:37 am, Zhen Liu wrote:
[snip]
From: Zhen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:03:21 -0500
Hi,
I am working on the amanda backup project now, and I am a newbie for
both amanda and linux... right now, I have some problem with our
On Thursday 07 March 2002 09:18 am, Zhen Liu wrote:
Zhen Liu
Via Webmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a repost.
Did you not receive my reply from yesterday? That reply should
have contained something helpfull...
-- Forwarded message ---
From: Zhen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
On Saturday 09 March 2002 09:29 am, Jenn Sturm wrote:
Something that for some reason, won't copy into kmail for a reply!
Probably that dash-dash divider as a first line as thats, by
convention, the marker for the end of the message, and if a space
follows the -- as the first characters on the
On Monday 11 March 2002 05:55 am, David Flood wrote:
I have recently upgraded from amanda 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2 but when
I try to do a amflush I get the following error:
ld.so.1: /opt/amanda/sbin/amflush: fatal:
libamserver-2.4.1p1.so.0: open failed: No such file or
directory
Killed
The amanda
Hi everybody, back from a week in FL that included a trip to the
Cape, nice to have kin with a pad in Mt. Dora.
I was running 2.4.3b3-20020311 at the time.
I'd left amanda to fill the holding disk while I was gone, and it
appeared to have had an access problem according to the mails
because
On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:16 pm, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:06:41PM +0100, Thomas Hepper wrote:
Yup there was an bug introduced in chg-scsi which will cause
an endless loop on readingthe config file, fixed in CVS so
wait for the next snapshot.
A new snapshot is
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:38 am, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:16 pm, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:06:41PM +0100, Thomas Hepper wrote:
Yup there was an bug introduced in chg-scsi
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:38 am, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Latest snapshot have:
md5sum amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324.tar.gz
f74bc9822c6cf1d8624819cac6fbff16 amanda-2.4.3b3-20020324.tar.gz
Maybe you have a caching problem.
Which was exactly it, mozilla's cache TBE. My apologies.
--
Cheers,
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 07:06 am, Jesús Moya wrote:
Hi!. I have a question about backup cycles in amanda. We have a
one week dumpcycle, with 5 tapes (one per day) and with 5 runs
of amdump. But this week in my country there are two holiday
days, Thursday and Friday. We aren't going to make a
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 08:18 am, Don Potter wrote:
I'm sure we all have a selection of scripts that we use to make
our backup lives that much easier. Would there be any
objections posting any scripts that we find to be prudent to
this mailer. Majority of mine are quick and nasty bourne
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 01:27 pm, Jesús Moya wrote:
Yes, but my holding-disk has 3500 Mb. The backups are 7-8 Gb.
This won't work. Is there a method for starting a cycle when i
want
Sure, you can 'su amanda' and run an amdump from a shell, no
problem that I can see.
I suppose one could
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:53 pm, Fernan Aguero wrote:
I'm trying to understand why amanda is only writing
approximately 19-20 GB on my DDS-4 tapes (HP C5718A, min 20GB
and up to 40GB with compression).
Supposedly, my DAT40i drive is set from factory with hardware
compression ON, and host
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:03 am, Fernan Aguero wrote:
Thanks everybody for your helpful responses. All of them had
different and useful tips. I'll try to summarize and add some
comments.
i) Regarding compression on FreeBSD: thanks John (Merryweath) for
reminding me of mt.
I have now turned
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 04:07 pm, John R. Jackson wrote:
v) Gene said: Any partition thats that much gzipped already,
should have the compression turned off, doing a straight tar
of it.
Again, I'm a newbie, and if I decided not to use tar, was not
based on my own experience but from what
On Thursday 28 March 2002 10:20 pm, Andy Zhang wrote:
I was trying to restore a backup without the Amanda, here's what
I did:
# mt rewind
# mt fsf 1
# dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=32k skip=1 | tar xvf -
(it's backed up by gtar)
It seems like I got all the saved files/directories, which were
being
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 06:19 am, Uncle George wrote:
It seems like when the whole procedure ( whether its labeling
tape(s), amchecking tape, or amdumping ) is complete, the tape
is left in the tape drive in an on-line state.
Is there some reason why the tape is not at least
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 08:58 am, Uncle George wrote:
Guess I'm from old school. Older 9trk drives when left on,
continually have the vacuum on, and under constant tension. Its
not healthy for the tape. Does that happen with a DLT tape, how
about the DDS tapes.
I'd have to assume that the
changer in this case, I can see why the
requested operations would be to your advantage.
Gene Heskett wrote:
I'd love to see the tapes stored and used at or slightly
below 50
degrees F, and 50% relative humidity as the tape is many
times less abrasive then. Some TV stations have even gone
On Friday 05 April 2002 08:41 am, Shawn Sanders wrote:
Hello all,
We have been getting alot of
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on
device]]. server1 /export/share1 lev 1 FAILED [out of tape]
server1 /export/share1 lev 1 FAILED [data write: Connection
reset by peer]
On Friday 19 April 2002 01:17 pm, Ulrik Sandberg wrote:
Problem:
The DIN-A4 tape label template doesn't have the same information
as the Letter template. File# and the sizes are missing.
Solution:
I have adjusted a copy of the Letter template to fit on an A4,
meaning it also contains file#, orig
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:44 am, Vijay Kumar wrote:
hi!
How do i apply the Tar patfch in the patches directory?
I am using tar 1.13.19 . Do i still need the patch?
thanks for any replies,
Vijay
No, that, or 1.13.25, the latest 'alpha' version, appear to be
good according to reports coming
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 02:38 am, GIC MLs wrote:
I would expect this to be a frequently asked question, but after
looking through Google, I didn't see much specifically on it,
so...
My amdump email report starts out:
These dumps were to tape daily001.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is:
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 06:33 am, Niall O Broin wrote:
I'm just starting using Amanda (hence the level of questions :-)
) and I currently am backing up 4 filesystems on 2 hosts though
I want to increase this as soon as I'm happy with what's going
on. I'm currently puzzled about the size of
I was out of pocket for 2 weeks, doing the Grand Old Man scene at
a sister station, and when I got back I grabbed 2.4.3b3-20020422
and built it without doing my usual edit job on reporter.c to
make its output readable as it seemed reporter.c had been heavily
re-written, according to the
On Sunday 28 April 2002 04:10 am, Tom Beer wrote:
Hi,
I'm planing to rebuilt the machine where amanda server
is running, cause of heavy segfault problems.
However, how do I accomplish that not all the administration
data of amanda is lost? I thought of copying /usr/adm/amanda/
files and the
Does anyone here have any idea how one would go about converting
a DDS2 tape that been written by one of these with the DC on to a
format that leaves the DC off?
The problem is that once written to the tapes headers, it
apparently cannot be switched back off. This appears to be in a
header
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 07:08 am, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
one last resort would be using a big magnet on the tape and
after that relabeling it. But be aware this erases every single
bit ever written to the tape.
one other thing i would try before is to look at the drive itself
and check if
On Thursday 09 May 2002 04:55 pm, Peter Normann wrote:
Hi,
I have been struggling with getting Amanda to work.
First I used the snapshot from CVS and when I had configured
everything and attempted my first 'amdump Daily1' after succesfully
running amcheck Daily1, I get a lot of [defunct]
On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:55 pm, Sven Kirmess wrote:
I have a HP SureStore DDS-3 24x6 tape changer. This changer
worked as expected with AMANDA under Linux but I have huge
problems getting it to work with chg-scsi. I can navigate the
changer with chio and talk to the tape with mt.
Is there
On Monday 13 May 2002 06:08 pm, John Koenig wrote:
I recommend either:
a) spend REAL BIG money on adequate tape library with at least
10 8mm tapes (AIT-2, for example).
or
b) spend much smaller amount of money on large RAID-5 array of
many many gigabytes using 3ware IDE card and cheap IDE
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:21 pm, fil krohnengold wrote:
Just curious - anyone using mtx from sourceforge.net?
I've used it many times as a troubleshooting tool. No problems,
it does what I ask it on a CTL-96 Seagate changer.
--
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M
Howdy;
While I did get an echo of my last submission, mail in general
seems to have dried up, even the spam! Am I alone, or is eveyone
off on a holiday?
Also, Mr. Martineau(sp) seems to have ceased posting new
snapshots, the last was May 2nd. Those were VERY handy and I
hope he resumes
On Friday 31 May 2002 05:21 pm, Kaan Saldiraner wrote:
Hello,
I just installed a client and when i do amcheck for the Server it
gives me this error
ERROR: machine.domain.com: [DUMP program not available]
ERROR: machine.domain.com: [RESTORE program not available]
I rpmed the dump program and
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 04:08 am, Ulrik Sandberg wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:35:31AM +0200, Ulrik Sandberg wrote:
...
Then, fix time stamp so that the new tape has the same time
stamp as the previous entry ('previous' meaning 'below'):
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:42 pm, Kenny MacPherson wrote:
Can AMANDA on the whole only backup 24GB partitions or is this a
tape limitation in this case?
I have a /home5 partition on a DELL 4400 running RH7.2 and it's
failing daily! Other partitions do backup okay. The only issue is
that I
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:28 pm, Kenny MacPherson wrote:
Stephen, Jon, Lalo and Gene (and anyone else!)
Thanks for the response. It's very helpful - I wasn't picking on
you Lalo but when I saw the 24GB quoted, alarm bells started
ringing, so it's good to here that my 55GB should be
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 13:02, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
sorry that was my fault,
the module for the scsi-tape support is called st
Christoph
Under linux, /dev/st(number) is a rewinding device, eg it rewinds the
tape when the path is closed. This is a very bad situation for most
backup
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:30, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Hallo Gene,
Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 11:32:29 PM, you wrote:
GH So you should be using the /dev/nst(number) descriptor as it
doesn't do GH an automatic rewind as it closes the path. Amanda
will rewind the tape GH by herself when she
On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:50, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote:
Tried excluding the entire directory --- no go.
Another question for ya: if I use the exclude list option, does my
list file need to be in an amanda directory (var/amanda) or can it be
anywhere? My Sco Unix installation has
On Saturday 15 June 2002 07:01, Niall O Broin wrote:
I'm trying to decide whether or not to use software compression in
my amanda configuration. At the moment, I'm backing up to a DDS-3
and I've told Amanda that the tape capacity is 15GB to allow for
hardware compression. Of course I don't
On Saturday 15 June 2002 15:42, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:35:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Time to compress, or uncompress isn't normally that big a deal
unless the tape server is a 66mhz P1 or some such slowpoke.
Even with a fast machine, compressing 8GB is going
On Saturday 15 June 2002 20:04, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:16:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
I think you missed the sequence there, I used the rewinding
device descriptor st0 when I read the label out to a file, so
when the
Ah, there's the rub - that may be what you
On Sunday 16 June 2002 05:49, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:56:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
I think you missed the sequence there, I used the rewinding
device descriptor st0 when I read the label out to a file,
so when the
Ah, there's the rub - that may be what you
On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:28, Gary Hines wrote:
Just as a reference for future HP users that might run into this
problem.
I was able to get Amanda compiled and installed by using GCC 3.0.2.
This is available from itrc.hp.com
On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:45, Anthony Hinsinger wrote:
Hello,
i've just installed amanda on a debian woody.
i'd like to test 9 tapes (my tapecycle) without waiting 2 week
(the dumpcycle, ... runspercycle is set to 8)
how does amanda will work if i launch 9 times amdump on a day for
my test ?
On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:48, Allan Sun wrote:
Hi all,
I just downloaded 2.4.2p2 on my Mandrake 8.2(Linux kernel 2.4.18),
I got the following error when run
#./configure
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host
type; you must specify one
Coud somebody help me?
On Thursday 20 June 2002 12:15, Steve Bertrand wrote:
please tell me the status of the tape led's
tks
Unforch, only someone who is intimately familiar with your tape
drive can do that. Since we don't know what drive from this posts
contents, the best any of us could do would be a *SWAG.
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:49 am, chandrasekar wrote:
Hi everyone
This might be a simple question. I just wanted to know if we
can use DDS cleaning tape in a DDS-3 tape drive.
Thanks in advance
regards
chandrasekar
I've read someplace that the formulations have changed enough
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